Ticket-holder



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No. 485,202. Patented Nov. 1, 1892.

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M. LINCOLN. TICKET HOLDER.

No. 485,202. Patented Nov. 1, 1892,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARSHALL LINCOLN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TICKET-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,202, dated November1, 1892.

Application filed July 11 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARSHALL LINCOLN, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk, State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ticket-Holders for Railway-Carriages, of which thefollowing is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enableany person skilled in the art or science to which said inventionappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which--Figure l is a perspective view of a railwaycar seat showing my improvedticket-holder in position; Fig. 2, a top plan view, enlarged, of aportion of a seat-back, the gimp being represented as broken away,showing the holder in top plan view; and Fig. 3, a vertical transversesection taken on line as m in Fig. 2.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the differentfigures of the drawings.

My invention relates especially to a device attachable to the back ofthe railway-car seat for holding the tickets of the passengers, so thatthey may be in view of the conductors; and it consists in certain novelfeatures hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object being toproduce a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this characterthan is now in ordinary use.

In the drawings, A represents the seat-back, which is upholstered in theordinary manner and which is provided with the usual gimp cord or tapeb.

My improved holder comprises a plate or sheet of metal secured centrallyto an edge of the back A, a portion of said plate being projected underthe gimp b. The outer edge of the plate or body is bent or lippeddownward at d over the edge of the seat-back and may be imprinted withthe word Ticket, as shown in Fig. 1. The horizontal portion of the plateis depressed or channeled at f, said portion being let into the materialof the seatback, as shown in Fig. 3, forming a chamber under the gimp b.Laterally across said channel there is arranged a horizontal spring-barof metal g, which projects through the side Serial No. 439,613. (Nomodel.)

walls of the channel and which has each of its ends hooked at h, asshown in Fig. 2. Asimilar spring-bar 2' extends across the top of thechannel in parallelism with the bar 9, but slightly out of the verticalplane thereof and leaving a space between. Said bar is rigidly securedto the body-plate B by rivetsj. On these rivets the hooks h of the underbar 9 take. A certain lost motion is thus allowed the lower bar, whichpermits a package or series of coupon-tickets to be inserted thereunder. The bars 9 t are concealed by the gimp.

In use the conductor on taking the tickets from the passengers andpunching the same can slip one of sa d tickets 70, should there be twoor more, diagonally under the lower spring-bar g, and the other ticketson in like manner between the bars. This affords means whereby when itis desired to withdraw one of the tickets for a passenger who is toleave the train the other ticket will remain in the holder, avoiding thedisplacement of both tickets, as would occur were they both insertedunder the same bar. It is the custom to crowd the tickets under the gimpcord or finish of the upholstery of seats for the purpose desoribed.This rapidly wears the plush at the edge of the seat-back. The lip dofmy improved holder, overlapping the same, prevent-s this.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is 1. A ticket-holdercomprising the plate B and depression f, in combination with thespring-bar i, secured to said plate across said depression, and themovable spring-bar g, arranged in parallelism with the first bar with aspace between, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the seat-back A, of the plate 13, having thelip d secured to said back and channeled at f, the spring-bar 1 securedto said plate by rivetsj, and the hooked spring-bar 9, taking on saidrivets, substantially as set forth.

MARSHALL LINCOLN.

Witnesses:

KATHARINE DURFEE, O. M. SHAW.

